Report: An Animated Diablo Series Is Coming To Netflix

The dread Diablo peers out from the box art for Diablo 3. (Image: Blizzard Entertainment)

Hail the prime evil.

Variety is reporting — thanks to a hastily-deleted tweet from Boom Studios founder and Hellboy screenwriter Andrew Cosby, confirming he’s in “final talks” to headline the series — that the recently rumoured Netflix adaptation of Blizzard’s classic loot-hoarding, demon-slaying action RPG series Diablo is really happening.

And specifically, it’s happening in a manner similar to Netflix’s other recent demon-adjacent video game adaptation, the excellent Castlevania: It’ll be animated, too.

There’s no other details on the show yet — hence the deleted tweets. So we can probably expect an announcement relatively soon, or perhaps a look at the show at Blizzard’s annual fan convention BlizzCon, which opens in Anaheim, California on November 2.

But now that the loot’s out of the treasure goblin’s sack, so to speak, maybe we’ll be getting more details about Blizzard and Netflix’s new pact sooner rather than later.

I'd like to imagine that every episode is 30 minutes of killing enemies and at the end of each show the hero gets a new piece of loot to replace an old one. Season one would start out with getting uncommon items and then by about the sixth or seventh season they're getting legendary and artifact items while farming rifts.

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